All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.

No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned

Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.

There's a man upon that ledge, he's only cleaning windows. What a shame for the pain we're missing. Gonna lean back on my wall and pray for him to fall.

What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.